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ROSE OF SHARON is a 1930 W. Starling Burgess designed schooner and currently sits in Los Angeles and is among the last schooners built to W. Starling Burgess designs.

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The Swan Point Garvey is the culmination of Russ Manheimer’s years of dreaming about the perfect boat for day excursions in the coastal marshes of New Jersey. Doug Hylan designed the boat, and his shop, Hylan & Brown Boatbuilders of Brooklin, Maine, built it in time for an early June launching.

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ST. VINCENT and CLAN GORDON

by Mike Smylie

Zulu ST. VINCENT and the Lochfyne skiff CLAN GORDON were relaunched in spring 2023.

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Rescue Renovation

by Todd Allen Schwede

Launched in 1924, the schooner BAGHEERA was saved from oblivion in the early 1980s. Today, she is the centerpiece of a charter business in Portland, Maine.

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Repairing WHITEFIN

by Erik Wirta

The sloop WHITEFIN was built in Maine.

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Shad Boats

by Paul Molyneaux

The North Carolina shad boat is emblematic of the post-Civil War–era South. It embodies innumerable aspects of this period of its region’s historical resource use and development patterns. The changes...

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Sailing Between the Trees

Text and photographs by Nic Compton

Four camp-cruisers, Goat Island Skiff EPIK, Silmaril TRUK 2, the Grand Silmaril VITAE BREVIS, and the Silmaril KERELEN 4.

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MARGARET PEARL

by Nigel Sharp

The 56′ MARGARET PEARL commercial crayfishing vessel designed and built in the Australian island state of Tasmania.

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RAGTIME

by Text by Randall Peffer, photographs by Steven Jost

More than 50 years after she was launched, the groundbreaking sloop RAGTIME has emerged from a comprehensive refit and is winning races.

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Perth’s Fleet of Herreshoff H28s

by Nigel Sharp, Text and Photographs

THE FIRST JINDARRA, ANNA, and SWIFTSURE SAGA are among a fleet of wooden-hulled H28s that continue to race regularly as a one-design class out of the South of Perth Yacht Club in Western Australia. About 40 of the boats have been built in the state since the 1940s, following plans by L. Francis Herreshoff.

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